Underground Gibraltar

Captain Edmund Flint, secretary of the Gibraltar Museum Society which had formerly been the Gibraltar Scientific Society, presented to this society a skull on the 3rd March, 1848 which had been found in Forbes’s Quarry. This quarry, named after the battery directly above it, had produced the skull of a Neanderthal but its significance was not realised until a long time after and the German specimen, found in 1856, gave this species its scientific name. The nineteenth century quarrying removed much of the vegetated slope at the base of the cavern. The cave, in which the Neanderthal skull and probably many other interesting remains had been deposited, was almost totally destroyed leaving very little evidence.